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Continued: Samuel Bailey graduated from Woodward High School. He rented a team and wagon from his father, and did hauling. He entered the employ of Cincinnati Transfer Co. as a clerk in 1860 at age 21. He continued in more and more responsible capacities until he became President. This concern also operated the Cincinnati Railroad Omnibus Line. He took over and became President of the American Laundry Co.. He was one of a group which organized the Lincoln Club, of which he was a life member, repeatedly a director, and President in 1887-1888. In 1870 he joined the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, becoming and continuing as one of its Real Estate Managers. A staunch Republican, he entered politics in the spring of 1878 by becoming a candidate from the Fifth Ward (strongly Democratic) for the Board of Education, was elected, and succeeded himself in the spring of 1880. In the fall of 1880 he was elected Sherif of Hamilton County, and served two years. He had become a member of Republican Cy-Exec-Com, and continued with it by serving on the Finance Committe, "the confidence of the community in his scrupulous integrity lending ease to the raising of funds necessary for the legitimate management of a Republican campaign." He was appointed Sub-Treasurer of the U.S. for the District of Cincinnati in 1889, by Benjamin Harrison, when the latter became President of the U.S., and served four years. In 1911 he retired from business, and with his family, moved to Pasadena California.
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